Wednesday, 22 July 2009

iDefense have published an advisory for a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the Akamai Download Manager which was discovered by Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security. The vulnerability effects the ActiveX version of the download manager (Versions <= 2.2.3.7) and results in arbitrary code execution through the victims browser after the victim visits a malicious web page.

TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has published an advisory for a critical remote pre-authentication arbitrary DLL injection vulnerability in the Novell Privileged User Manager which was discovered by Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security.